More than 30% of the new cases are school-age children, the professor of Environmental Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki told SKAI. Demosthenes Sarigiannis calling for vaccination.
As Demosthenes Sarigiannis pointed out by February 24, we will reach 31,000 to 32,000 cases as a weekly average, we can see 35,000 cases in a day with so many tests. The death toll will reach about 75. He attributed the increase in cases mainly due to non-vaccination in the third dose.
«There may be as many as 200,000 active cases could be even more so, since Omicron in a good percentage of the population gives asymptomatic disease, we are talking mainly about Omicron. The Omicron wave is very sharp everywhere in the world. “Omicron seems to be creating a problem for people with already underlying diseases, and Omicron does not give him a mild illness if he is not vaccinated”, stressed Mr. Sarigianis.
For his part, the rector of EKPA Thanasis Dimopoulos stressed that the majority of ICU patients remain with the Delta executive. “An elderly person with comorbidities who have not been vaccinated or who have lost the effect of the vaccine because the time has passed is more likely to become seriously ill with the Omicron strain,” he warned.
With the third dose, the protection against Omicron infection is 50%, but the protection against serious illness is 85% and death is 95%, he stressed.
In view of the receipt of 474,000 doses of the Novavax protein vaccine in our country, Mr. Dimopoulos noted that “we will soon have the protein vaccines produced in the classical way, “like the ones we have all been subjected to for childhood diseases, for our fellow citizens who are worried about mRNA vaccines that they think will supposedly affect their DNA.”
Protein vaccines, he explained, seem to be very effective in treating serious illness and death and because they are older technology they seem to be able to cover adequate and mutated strains.
“What are we really doing?” “We put a piece of the virus inside the body together with a booster to allow the body to develop antibodies to that piece of the virus.”
Mr. Dimopoulos clarified that as long as we have areas that remain unvaccinated, especially in Africa, we can never say that we will calm down from the coronavirus. We hope that it will become endemic in Europe and that vaccination will continue in developing countries.
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